Things you can do!

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Painted this morning, December 31st, on the Falls Road, Belfast. Thanks to Kathleen Connell for sending it.

1. Join or organize emergency protests and direct actions in partnership with Palestine solidarity and social justice organisations in your area. Send reports of actions you participate in so this information can be shared with people around the world.

He has spoken out to condemn Israeli Apartheid and called for boycott, divestment and sanctions.

Shortly after the Israeli onslaught on the people of Gaza started, the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) launched a Statement of Determination to Boycott Israel.
Please promote this statement in newspapers, professional and trade union journals, on internet sites — wherever — and encourage people to sign. It is intended to be a worldwide statement of determination. To read the statement, a-statement-of-determination-to-boycott-israel.
If you want to sign, please reply to:

gazaemergency@bricup.org.uk

6. Write to your member of parliament.
If you are in the UK, you can find your MP’s details on this site:

Just enter your postcode. This will connect you to your elected representatives on four levels of governemnt: Local, regional national, and European. Use all to write to your elected representatives, and try and see them to make sure they know how you feel about this issue.

If you are in the UK you can do the following (or the equivalents if you live elsewhere)

(You could mention you are appalled that he has been on the BBC calling for restraint on all sides when nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed, as if we are speaking here of two armies in conflict, rather than a mass murder recalling Guernica)

12. Write to the main figures in the US administration, as well as politicians elsewhere

Lena Jayyusi says: I have just sent messages to President Bush, President elect Obama, Vice President Cheney, Vice President elect Biden, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of State designate Clinton, Congressional leaders, the U.N. Secretary General, Security Council and member states, the Israeli President, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and members of the world media saying Stop the U.S./Israeli aggression against Gaza NOW!
Please take the time to do the same by clicking on the link at the bottom of this email message.http://www.iacenter.org/gazapetition

13. Boycott ALL Israeli goods of whatever kind – food, technology, cultural artifacts – help us to isolate this brutal and inhuman regime in the same way we have manged to do during the 1970s and 1980s to the South African apartheid regime, to which it is close in outlook. To learn more about the Goods Boycott, link to Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods excellent website: